Meet The Women Scientists of the TIME 100

April 16, 2015 11:00 AM

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It will surprise no one to learn that women are vastly underrepresented in the field of science. But in this year’s TIME 100, five outstanding women who are making huge strides in the fields of medicine, genetics, and infectious disease, made the list.

Dr. Joanne Liu, International president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Liu and her team at MSF were the first to respond to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea. Liu has become a leader in the outbreak, and has fiercely and publically criticized the international community for its...